Word: khedda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princes: Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk and Yemen's Seif el Islam el Hassan. Foreign Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman...
...three-week secret conference in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. 80 members of the F.L.N.'s National Council tossed out Abbas and installed a new team headed by Premier Youssef Ben Khedda. 41. who is convinced that the West is so committed to "colonialism and imperialism'' that the F.L.N. "must look elsewhere for salvation...
Thin. pale, with long black hair and burning eyes screened by spectacles, Ben Khedda performed his first revolutionary act at the age of 14 by scrawling "Long live Algerian independence!'' on the wall of his Algerian school. His extreme nationalism carried him to leadership among the Moslem students at the University of Algiers, and he was twice jailed by the French, winning his release the second time through the intervention of French liberals who had worked with him in the Algiers Boy Scout movement...